Tel Quel

This article is about the French literary magazine. For the Moroccan weekly, see TelQuel.

Tel Quel
PublisherÉditions du Seuil
Founder
Founded1960
Final issue1982
CountryFrance
Based inParis
LanguageFrench

Tel Quel (translated into English as, variously: "as is," "as such," or "unchanged") was a French avant-garde literary magazine published between 1960 and 1982.

History and profile

Tel Quel was founded in 1960 in Paris by Philippe Sollers[1][2] and Jean-Edern Hallier and published by Éditions du Seuil. Important essays working towards post-structuralism and deconstruction appeared here. Publication ceased in 1982, and the journal was succeeded by L'Infini under Sollers's continued editorship.[2]

Though the journal originally published essays more in line with what current literary theory calls "structuralism," it would eventually feature work that reflected the revaluation of literary, artistic, and music criticism that began in France in the 1960s.[1]

The editors committee included Philippe Sollers, Jean-Edern Hallier, Jean-René Huguenin, Jean Ricardou, Jean Thibaudeau, Michel Deguy, Marcelin Pleynet, Denis Roche, Jean-Louis Baudry, Jean-Pierre Faye, Jacqueline Risset, François Wahl, and Julia Kristeva (married to Philippe Sollers since 1967).

Authors and collaborators include Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Maurice Blanchot, Pierre Boulez, Jacques Derrida, Jean Cayrol, Jean-Pierre Faye, Shoshana Felman

In 1971 the journal broke with the French Communist Party and declared its support for Maoism. In 1974 the editorial members Philippe Sollers, Marcelin Pleynet, François Wahl, Roland Barthes and Julia Kristeva visited China.[3] The trip, which was tightly organized by Chinese government officials, would later be processed in several essays and books by the participants. In the autumn of 1976 the journal explicitly distanced itself from Maoism.[4]

Tel Quel featured a special section for terrorism in Italy in 1978, and Maria Antonietta Macciocchi and Leonardo Sciascia were among the contributors of the section.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Richard Aplin; Joseph Montchamp (27 January 2014). Dictionary of Contemporary France. Routledge. p. 454. ISBN 978-1-135-93646-4. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Revue L'Infini". Gallimard (in French). Retrieved 4 May 2016.
  3. ^ Perry Johansson (2012). Saluting the Yellow Emperor: A Case of Swedish Sinography. Vol. 104. Leiden; Boston: Brill. p. 170. doi:10.1163/9789004226395_010. ISBN 978-90-04-22639-5.
  4. ^ Dora Zhang (23 June 2012). "The Sideways Gaze: Roland Barthes's Travels in China". Los Angeles Review of Books.
  5. ^ Pierpaolo Antonello (2009). "Narratives of Sacrifice: Pasolini and Moro". In Pierpaolo Antonello; Alan O'Leary (eds.). Imagining Terrorism. The Rhetoric and Representation of Political Violence in Italy 1969-2009. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315092799. ISBN 9781315092799.

Further reading

  • Patrick Ffrench and Roland-François Lack (eds.), The Tel Quel Reader (London: Routledge, 1998)
  • Patrick Ffrench, The Time of Theory: A History of Tel Quel (1960-1983) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)
  • Philippe Forest, Histoire de Tel quel: 1960-1982 (Éditions du Seuil, 1995)
  • Niilo Kauppi, The Making of an Avant-Garde: Tel Quel (Mouton de Gruyter, 1994)